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Interview with MoPIX co-founder, Ryan Stoner - 500 Startups company
Are you doing it just for fun, or is there any benefit over using something like w3m-emacs? (it could be nice to have emacs search HN for the currently selected word and make it a link, or something like that)
Yes it is. From delhi@india.
They use it for the DRM. In their case it's a necessary evil.
Earlier, the plan was to have no plugin support at all in IE10 Metro. Microsoft is positioning the whitelist approach as a backwards compatibility shim for high-profile sites that won't or can't give up Flash.
Logscape
You're having db issues here : http://www.repeaterstore.com/applications/small-building.htm...
When we data security advocates discuss things like promiscuous trust among SSL certificate authorities and one-click scary page bypass features with browser vendors, inevitably the old adage comes up "no vendor is willing to lose market share by making its security policies more restrictive than the others".

Perhaps this is a test case trying to break out of the old status quo?

Disclaimer: I recently accepted a position at the big M itself.
Doesn't work on my Google Nexus either.
hm. At the end we have done our pitch deck as a "Google Docs Presentation". We considered reveal.js by Hakim or even Apple Keynote.

The best thing about the service is that it gives you a good starting point. Why not give the template away for free and offer custom support for a good amount of cash?
Canonical is responsible for a very small portion of Ubuntu, and is probably one of the most funded parts.
Facebook: The antisocial network branded 'disingenuous and immoral'
Here is what I think about it.

Why are you flipping the bed to the wall?
1. The cot will slip down, will be a mess and I will have to fix it everyday. BAD
2. Unstable structure - Why is the heavy/big part on top ?

It would have been better if this was like a standard desktop
table. You could pull the whole table from underneath of the bed
and put it above the bed like pulling a keyboard dock. The table
would stay on top of the bed when in use and can be pushed
underneath. Much better. This whole thing looks stupid to me.
You mention that Chrome is run by an ad company, but midori lacks decent privacy tools and leaves you much more exposed than Chrome which can run extensions like Adblock Plus and Ghostery. For better or for worse, the web is a complex place and using a simple browser doesn't decrease the complexity outside of your own computer.
Yes and no. I suspect in practice Zygna have quite a lot of control over how to value OMGPOP, and could have chosen to (for the moment) value it somewhere closer to what they paid for it had they wanted to.
ZapDrive.com! You get 100 GB for just $19.99/year. Upgrade upto 10 TB at the same rate. (200 GB for 39.99/year and so on...). And, unlike Dropbox, you don't have to save everything on your computer, cuz ZapDrive behaves like a network drive.
Yes, but obviously there is a line between shielding private money from business-related risks and intentionally running a company into bankruptcy to avoid liabilities. Although I agree that this line is a bit blurry.
Indeed it is a fine line, but there is plenty of things you can learn along the way to make that line a little less fine until it gets to the point that the line might not even exist anymore!

Give yourself some credit, you know stuff, and you can know even more if you want to :-)

That is what self growth is all about after all!

I find that having an understanding of human psychology is a critical step towards being effective with this kind of stuff, because it helps you work through the psychology of other people for a common goal (ie, a random conversation with a stranger, job interview, speech, etc).

Without it, your flying blind. When I was younger and flying blind it cost me a number of futures I will never see now.

Humbleness can come off as exploitable and dumb, just as much as it can come off as being intelligent, it's not just what you say, it's also how you say it!

Safe journeys!
Disclaimer: I work for ZapDrive, and we just launched yesterday!
My own VPS for projects and some docs, for random things dropbox. But i do not have any photos music videos & c.
You are probably technically correct, but missing the point of the parent comment. The point is that this thread seems to see developers as the little guy getting screwed by circumstances & The Powerful while from a different (more "average") perspective these are relatively well off people that earned very well complaining that they didn't do outrageously well.

It's good to keep in mind that the world doesn't owe you much. Where you are would be a massive victory for many. Where you started is where many work their whole lives to get closer to. Perspective plays trick on us. We think where we are is normal, slightly above us is where we ought to be.
Those $600MM are detailed in their Quarterly report:

-$450MM are deferred revenues (i.e., people bought things in their games but they don't recognize everything as revenue right away, a common procedure with online video games).

-$40MM are customer deposits, which according to them "represent amounts received for unredeemed game cards as well as advanced payments from various customers."

-$120MM are things like transaction taxes, compensation related liabilities and accounts payable.

So, it's not really debt, just working capital.
No, Silverlight doesn't run on IE10 Metro. I just tested that it doesn't run on an arbitrary site, and I don't think it's possible to even whitelist it.
I think you can learn almost any language in a couple of week, but mastering them is a completely different story...
The iphone/ipad web browsers already don't support flash, so dropping flash support isn't entirely a new thing. I for one am looking forward to its death on more platforms.
What word were you going with?
Interesting how polarizing Jeff Atwoods views about to-do lists are.

I believe that to-do lists are just a symptom of a different problem:

Working on something you do not really care about. (sadly, most people have to do this)

If you cared about the product or whatever you are creating, and the communication between you and your customer/boss/team is good, your goals would be aligned (in most cases), thus making it very hard to miss a really important task.

Probably it would have been better for Jeff to give the advice to try working on stuff you really care about.
Works fine on mine, in Chrome.
Could you learn French in a month?

You could learn the basic structures of the language, and enough words to get by in a lot of common situations. But you wouldn't have the same dexterity as a fluent speaker and would often find yourself lost for a particular word.
Why is that? Flash seems pretty logical to me. If you were giving the choice to either design with a single language that compiles to bytecode and runs in a vm(jit), or an array of interpretive scripts that's heavily submitted to fragmentation, which would you choose? You'd probably go for the first, as would I.

Flash may be a bad implementation of good idea, but alternatives have not exactly wooed me either. To be quite honest; they all seem equally flawed to me. The fact that jQuery, Bootstrap, and others originated out of overcoming fragmentation pretty much proofs that point. Also different JavaScript engines give you different performances and have different bottlenecks. At least with flash you had the guarantee it would crash the same on all platforms.
I'd say take it. It is a nice thing to go to a nice conference if it's not an usual thing. In any case the fact that this is happening from an italian startup doesn't surprise me. As an italian I have seen worse things.
I'm guessing the same lumbering beast is hiding under these new changes, including the search annoyances like not being able to exclude whole categories from the results.
Your inquiry leaves something out that's important -- whether you have learned any computer programming languages before.

I ask because writing HTML and using CSS don't count as "programming", they're more like word processing. Computer programming has little in common with HTML and CSS development work.

So as far as learning JavaScript in a month, it depends on whether you've had any exposure to other computer languages. If not, then a month of exposure to JavaScript might not be enough to make you productive in the language.

Adding JavaScript to your knowledge base is certainly a good idea, but if you haven't done any programming before, and to become proficient, you might want to schedule more time for it.
DRM, better streaming, C# and the .Net framework
Right you are Tony, I just want to learn for basic usage. Then I'll try dig dipper into JS.
What I would really like to do for Mozilla is, fix the memory leak problem in the Mac version :( (Never used the windows version, so don't know if it exists in windows too)
Am I the only one who thinks Stripe might be the most important YC startup ever?
In the ebook's HTML, you can specify the text-align CSS attribute. If not specified, I believe the Kindle defaults to justify, and the Nook defaults to left-align. So books you read on the Kindle that are left-aligned (ragged right) probably have specified that in their CSS.
And if this is controlled by group policy, then this allows them to increase security for end consumers whilst allowing business customers the ability to carry on supporting the internal use of Flash that they may (feel that they) require.
It's a dev platform. A way for people to experiment with a new architecture. The roadmap is to eventually get to PCIe cards with thousands of cores.
I believe that it's supposed to be read as
Pre-Commerce is to Production as Derivatives are to a Hedge Funds.

Although I could be wrong, as even considering that interpretation I am not sure what point the GP was trying to make.
Before learning HTML & CSS I've practiced with VB on Visual Studio 2008 and created couples of little programs using VB (Notepad, IE based Web browser, Media player etc). So I've basic knowledge of programming languages.
Excellent article but it still doesn't explain apparent "hatred" towards N9 and everything related to it. You cannot find it on Nokia support pages, for example. On the products list it's always on the third or fourth page after a lot of old Symbian phones (I'm browsing localised version for my country). It's like they're (current Nokia management) somewhat ashamed of it.
Regulators demand patent licence clarification
Right saying. As far as I know, learning programming languages looks like learning human language, if you know one language from a definite language family you can learn any other relative language with ease. I'll try to do my best to practice more with JS.
It sorta works in a broken way in 4.1.2 on my Galaxy Nexus running stock browser.
SC Supreme Court Creates Split With Ninth Circuit on Privacy in Stored E-Mail
I remember reading this and thinking "nice", back when there were a lot of sites where video couldn't be viewed on an iPhone:

https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

Two years later, and I can even comfortably disable the Flash plugin in my desktop browser.

It seems (thankfully) that Flash is fast turning into a relic of last decade. Not a bad move by MS.
From the pictures itself it seems obvious that whoever wrote this suffers from the infamous valley "if it works on my iPhone, it's standard-compliant"-syndrome.

Because, you know, it breaks horribly in most stuff I throw at it and performs horribly bad even on desktop Chrome on a dev-machine.
The fact is that I'm moving to another country after a month and it will help me to find a relevant job for me with the knowledge of JS. That's why I'm trying to learn JavaScript as soon as possible. Thanks for reference!
What Your Personal Email Says About You
Writing node.js applications in C#
Yes, dm-cache is not new, but it just had a major new release. It now has a feature to allow many vms to share one cache.

I can't speak for the flashcache team, but I do know that one goal of the dm-cache team is to get it into the upstream for the linux kernel(I know this b/c I worked with dm-cache team last year).
I have to admit though: Netflix's (Silverlight) player is remarkably stable compared to anything I've ever tried in Flash.
Mozilla pulls Firefox 16 over privacy problem
I've tried some lessons on CodeAcademy the lessons are actually interesting and interactive.
Using Kinect to turn any surface into a multi-user, multi-finger touchscreen
Firefox upgrade taken offline due to vulnerability
To be clear, I'm not asking because I'm concerned about my rates. I don't work full-time on contract projects as I have other business interests as well, but even when I do, I seem to be somewhere around what Patrick considered the sweet spot in terms of size of client, who I'm dealing with, etc.

I just wish that if people who have been consulting for a relatively short time themselves want to share their advice with others who might be thinking of going down that path, they would give some sort of meaningful context to guide those other people about what to expect in practice. Otherwise, we're going to have a whole load of people who were actually on perfectly respectable if not exceptional rates, who were happy doing the work they were doing, whose clients were happy with the work they were doing, and who can't conveniently tie their personal contribution to an X% increase in the total profits of their clients, yet who then think they should be charging 10x as much and start going after new clients with unrealistic expectations. In most places, the software development industry is still quite a small world, and I'm genuinely concerned that such an approach is going to damage young developers' careers.

To be frank, I'm deeply skeptical about the current round of Tim Ferriss-style "Make More Money Than God In Five Minutes" discussions on HN. There are some interesting perspectives, and I'm certainly not criticising Patrick or any of the other guys for volunteering their points of view. But I do think quite a lot of that advice is going to be hard for many people to apply in practice, because the context won't be the same, and I do think it's borderline irresponsible to push the advice in as general and unqualified a form as sometimes happens, even if it happens with the best of intentions.
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Bits that were not obvious in retrospect and not previously covered in Patrick's writings or just obviously really important.

1. Patrick's consulting rate has more than septupled since he began consulting (or possibly just this year, can't remember.)

2. The longest he has ever waited to get paid by a client he would be happy to work with again is nine months.

3. On a related note: The bigger your client is the more bureaucratic BSthey will have so they get the special “I expect dealing with you on a business level to be hell” surcharge.

4. Becoming a consultancy is a different deal from being a consultant, even an extremely high end one. Brennan made less as yhe principal of a consultancy than as a consultant for the first year and a half. If you take the commendable attitude that making payroll is sacred you should have $30K set aside for “Despite cashflow issues, we made payroll” purposes.

5. On a related note: When the business has a bumper year employees get a 3-5% payrise. When things are looking like shit they still get paid what was previously negotiated, on time. Most people are, quite sensibly, risk averse. If they want the upside they can take the downside too.

There is a great deal more that's very valuablr in the transcript, like the discussion of the change in attitude that comes with charging more nut those struck me especially. Oh, and there's a link to a tptacek ccomment that is step by step guide to making LOTS AND LOTS OF MONEY.
Hakim El Hattab interviewed by Paul Irish
But you also wouldn't call any one of them "the founder of the nation", it works because the inclusion of "fathers" already states that they are a group.
Huh... mildly NSFW description in the page.
Exactly. I keep all of my 401k in index funds, same with my Roth IRA. I have other non-tax-advantaged accounts I use to investing in individual stocks.
Hmm. Reading the linked MS document, it sounds more like they're desupporting plugins more for user experience consistency reasons than security or anything else.
How to Tell If the Universe Is a Computer Simulation
thats bad news for 3D games in the browser where HTML5 isnt an option yet.
It may just be me, but I thought the link for US users to "try it" was not obvious enough. At first I thought maybe eBay was offline for a few days while they switched over or something (but then I realized that would be crazy!).
Got married last year. $1200 for the DJ.
No, giving away the news doesn’t mean lower-quality journalism
3. Not a surcharge an anti-discount

4. That's 30k per employee.

I'd have edited the original post but commenting on HN from a Lenovo phablet is hell.
Some sort of deal with Microsoft I would assume.
Whenever I read about these documentaries, I ask myself what the guys doing the documentary did about the case.

I hope they did get the woman the U$ 7.000.

Sadly, there are stories much like that, or worse, every single day. My SO works for the state child care agency here in Uruguay, now that's a thankless job if there is one. She gets to see the worst of human beings (child rape, uncaring mothers, a mother putting her 12 year old girl into prostitution), fortunately balanced by a little of the best too (kindhearted adoptive mothers for example, and lots of supportive people).
New non-profit technology company is crowdfunding to raise for first product
Apple broke that status quo by not allowing flash on iDevices at all. They had the advantage of the Steve/Apple "the people like it because we say they should and they think we a cool" super-power though, which MS do not currently poses, and they had both the performance (much Flash code is badly written and would devour battery life) and UI (much flash code that is out there won't work well on a touch-screen interface) caveats which are easier for the user-on-the-street (at least those I've talked to) to get their head around than security & stability problems.

This is though the first test of kicking flash in the teeth in a less restricted environment than the iDevice ecosystem, so it is still a brave move to be the first to do so (time will tell whether it is a brave move in the Yes Minister use of the word "brave"!).

One key fact that will help is that there is a growing perception amongst people who don't even know what Flash is that Flash is an out-dated technology, mainly because of the iDevice thing (if your site/app won't run on my iPad because of this "flash" thing, your flash thing is wrong not my shiny shiny). This will help MS and other browser makers as it reduces the uphill struggle convincing people that losing the feature is not too much to pay for the potential security and stability benefits.

Of course the other key factor will be what sites are on the white-list and how they address not being if they aren't (do they change tech, do they follow what-ever procedure is needed to get on the whitelist, or do they just tell their users "IE10 doesn't work here"?). I can name many video sites that MS won't want to be seen to support and won't want to make changes or pay for certification (or what-ever is needed) in order to get on the white list. A great many people use those sites regularly while pretending they don't know they exist - if those sites don't move to HTML5-video (with the problems that still exist there) or somehow get on the white-list those people might find some reason to switch to Chrome/Firefox/other (or stick with IE9) rather than upgrade to IE10.
Simplest possible examples of HTML, CSS and JavaScript
http://www.simpl.info

Simplest possible code examples: nothing more, nothing less.

AppCache, canvas, getUserMedia, WebRTC, FileSystem, Page Visibility, WebSQL, track, datalist, Web Fonts -- and lots more.
The only heartbreaking thing about this is that the developers were too cowardly to say no to poor working conditions. Doing so might have actually increased quality and output and saved the company. It's every technicians' job to stop management from getting out of hand - or manage the managers, if you will.
I think what waterlesscloud is getting at is: What about if you want to watch it yourself on your iPad/computer/TV without VCR?
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For those in the UK you need to read and understand the implications of Mansworth vs Jelley as it could save you a chunk of Capital Gains Tax (or allow you to carry forward a capital loss to offset future CGT).
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This has observably not happened to me, despite me being rather flag-happy.

(Not saying you're wrong; you're just not universally right.)
> theonemillioneuromap.com

I got 4 euros (minus google checkout fees) so far.
Our Redis service crashed. We've disabled our newsfeed feature temporarily while we investigate further.
Are they renting any co-working space? Heard the offices are nice.
Love this company.
Hey guys, thanks for checking this out. It was a really fun project to build! There are plenty of bugs to fix and devices to test. If you'd like to help, shoot me a pull request: https://github.com/thomasxiii/lenticular.js.
My website about PC processors http://www.jaki-procesor.pl/ (in Polish) gets me around 200$-300$ per month. US version http://www.best-processor.net/ is barely alive tho.
Life analytics: The smart camera that captures your every move
The smart camera that captures your every move...

"Photos are compiled and turned into a stop-frame video showing your whole day in a matter of minutes."

http://bit.ly/SSCJz1
What a pointless soundbite. No one real has typed h t t p colon slash slash in about 10 years.

After Google decided to covertly introduce their own proprietary SPDY-protocol and to undermine standard HTTP, W3C and IETF "in the name of user-friendlessness" and Chrome started assuming that any non-canonical server-name (ie in a URL like "test-server/testapp/page") is a Google-search, I find myself manually prepending URLs like that with http:// all the time.

Granted. I'm not a normal user. It's not a normal internet use-case.

But browser-design as of late has made it increasingly needed to be specified. Someone, somewhere sat down and decided that this was a direction they wanted to go.

The URL-bar has always been a referentially transparent addressing-function. IMO making it not so is a very bad move, and it's sole purpose was to secretly promote yet another invasive Google-product into becoming a web-standard without involving anyone else for input.
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I probably should go to one of these one day.
haven't had a good look through your site yet, I've been looking at backblaze, but zapdrive lookis interesting....is the drive connected over SSL or do you have a different encryption thing going on?
My parents run a property management business and they generally charge $100 of rent after the first month. You have to have a pretty high mortgage or a pretty undesirable property (i.e. have to take low rent) for that to cut into your positive net; In other words, likely if it's a old property you can't get rid of, but unlikely if it's an investment property.
> Company pays only £238,000 in corporation tax on UK earnings of up to £175m

It might be legal[1], but it's deeply disliked among regular tax-payers. Especially when we're going through austerity measures.

You want to do business in Europe? Pay your taxes; obey our laws.

[1] No-one is suggesting FB is evading tax. But sometimes tax avoidance schemes are borderline illegal and you're just waiting for a loophole to be closed.